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I mined Bitcoin for a bit, and in my defence, I did it to heat my room
I sold the Bitcoin for $200 roughly, if I had sold it at peak it would've been $2000
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Computers make more efficient heaters than actual heaters, so I'd say that's justified
@SwooshyCueb the Radeon HD 7970 was a space heater that happened to be capable of graphics
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My first gen Threadripper keeps my office warm during the winter
@ChlorideCull next time run folding@home
@haskal I did that a fair bit too, especially once ASICs arrived and mining became impossible with a single GPU
We run on pretty much exclusively hydroelectric power up here in the north of Sweden anyways, with a bit of wind power now in later years